Explore 25 ancient artifacts that prove the past was more advanced. Uncover lost technologies like the Antikythera Mechanism ...

There's something deeply unsettling about discovering an object that simply has no business being where it is, or when it is.

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

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The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself? The idea that aliens assisted the ...